Posts Tagged «design»

Jony Ive — Apple’s lead designer who has been designing shiny white products from a shiny white room for the last 15 years — has stated that when other companies copy Apple’s designs, ‘I don’t see it as flattery… It is theft and it is lazy.’ But is Ive right to get worked up? Imitation and design theft are just part of life!

Razer released the yearly iteration of the Blade, its extremely thin laptop with a respectable amount of gaming power under the hood. Razer spent a lot of money figuring out how to stuff all that power into a sleek MacBook-like body. In fact, the company spent $380,000 alone redesigning the standard USB port to better fit the overall design.

Just In Time workflow strategy has penetrated so deep into manufacturing now that even the automotive production lines now embrace it. In keeping with the philosophy Ford has introduced a sheet metal process that eliminates the need for time-costly dies to be machined. Ford’s F3T morphs metal with a blunt tool the way a chef would press a pie crust into a pan.

Most design flaws are more annoying than harmful, but over the years some have caused major disasters or changed the course of an industry. We look at a few of the most memorable and the lessons learned from them.

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